Elisha Cuthbert

BREAKING: I’m hearing that 20th Century Fox is the frontrunner to acquire Wool, a self-published online book that has become an internet sensation and is being called the sci-fi version of Fifty Shades of Grey. Ridley and Tony Scott’s Scott Free is partnering on the deal with Film Rites’ Steve Zaillian and Garrett Basch. Producers are still being worked out, but they will include Scott Free’s Elisha Holmes and Michael Costigan. There has been something of a stampede of bidders, including Lionsgate for a book was written by Hugh Howey, about a dystopian future whee last inhabitants on earth band together in safe bunkers called silos. No one is allowed outside until a secret is discovered that could change the course of humanity, as well as reveal its devastating past. Bidders sparked to the book and the grassroots groundswell of reader interest reminiscent of Fifty Shades Of Grey, which sold for a fortune to Universal.

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